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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails

by Paul Dix
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 17m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 11. Messaging

Application architectures designed around services need to build methods for communicating between these services. While REST and HTTP and JSON enable quick synchronous communication, messaging systems enable the creation of more robust asynchronous communication between services. This chapter looks at how messaging systems can be used in place of HTTP for writing data between services. It also goes over parts of the AMQP messaging standard and RabbitMQ, an open source implementation of AMQP.

What Is Messaging?

Messaging is how services communicate with each other. Traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches use HTTP as the message transport protocol and SOAP as the message format. SOAP is an XML standard ...

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